We did it! It’s amazing how fast ten weeks can go by. Kiarra and I presented our work this morning at the ProHealth REU and Summer Research Opportunities in Computing (SROC) Research Presentation symposium.

On Monday of this week, we finally received the last of the wearable equipment that we were waiting for, so on Tuesday and Wednesday we were finally able to collect the data needed for the wearable sensor reliability testing.  Scheduling around meetings, we made data collection rounds to all three of the stationary environmental monitoring stations in the morning, afternoon, and evening for two days. At each of the sensor locations, we recorded the time that we arrived in the general area, took measurements of the air temperature from the Kestrel and HOBO Pendant, and core bode temperature readings from the iThermonitor and Braun inner ear thermometer.  The iButtons (recording skin temperature) were activated before we left the building, and recorded our skin temperature at 1 minute intervals throughout the day.  Once we recorded our initial measurements, we walked around the area (parking lot, garden, orchard) twice to acclimate our bodies to the temperature, and went to the sensor to take readings again of all of the measurements so that we could compare the air temperature readings from the wearable sensors with the measurements taken from the RX3000 stations (in the garden and the orchard) or the MX2302 station (in the parking lot).  With our data collection complete on Wednesday evening, then we had to quickly analyze the data to finalize the poster in time for Kiarra’s first poster presentation on Thursday afternoon.  We did not have the wearable data completed by the time that Kiarra had to print and present, so we continued working on our data visualizations through Thursday night and Friday morning, and finished just in time to print and present!

I know that I learned a lot this summer about academic research and the opportunities available in graduate school. Here is the collection of our work:

Links to our:

• paper
• poster
• video
• lightning talk slides
• personal website
• LinkedIn profile
• Twitter profile
• press release

I am grateful for the opportunity that I was given this summer to participate in the ProHealth REU. Thank you to Dr. Habeeb and Dr. Siek for their guidance, and thank you to NSF for the funding!